Not all languages have adjectives, but most, including English, do. (English adjectives include big, old, and tired, among many others.) Those that do not, typically use words of another part of speech, often verbs, to serve the same semantic function; for example, such a language might have a verb that means "to be big", and would use a construction analogous to "big-being house" to express what English expresses as "big house". Even in languages that do have adjectives, one language's adjective might not be another's; for example, while English uses "to be hungry" (hungry being an adjective), French uses "avoir faim" (literally "to have hunger"), and where Hebrew uses the adjective "זקוק" (zaqūq, roughly "in need of"), English uses the verb "to need".
In most languages with adjectives, they form an open class of words; that is, it is relatively common for new adjectives to be formed via such processes as derivation.
Adjectives showing colors: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, black, white, dark blue, light green.
Adjective showing quality: good, bad, qualified.
Adjective showing size: big, small, pretty big, huge, large, long, short.
Adjective of shape: circle, triangle, rectangle.
Adjective of material: wooden, golden, plastic, iron.
Adjective of origin: American, Germany, Chinese.
Adjective showing physical appearance: nice, beautiful, ugly.
Adjective showing non-physical appearance: smart, humorous, fool.
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